Monica James

because if what Saint says is true…then I truly am alone in this world.

How ironic. It now offers me support, when once upon a time, it offered me death.

His thoughtfulness is because he wants something from me. It wasn’t done out of the kindness of his heart, which is my error,

I’ve bitten off more than I can chew,

Being scared means you’re about to do something brave.”

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. You’ve got one shot at life…so make it great.”

I hated it because I was no longer daddy’s little girl.

That Kenny wasn’t unzipping his pants and telling me to be a good little girl. I

carries me over the threshold.

But when fate intervened and took my dad away when I was twelve, my mother’s light faded.